Lawrence Howard

The Adventures of Huckleberry Horowitz

Lawrence Howard has come to terms with his being Jewish. This story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Horowitz, is all about growing up Jewish in NY. It's about gefilte fish and chopped liver and bagels and lox. It's about fisticuffs on the Hebrew School bus. It's about embarrassing himself at his own bar mitzvah. It's about the secret Christmas tree. It's about rejecting and then reclaiming his heritage. It's about the search for identity and belonging. The Adventures of Huckleberry Horowitz had SRO audiences and premiered as part of Portland Story Theater's Solo Performance Festival, Singlehandedly!

The Armchair Adventurer Series

2010: Mawson's Mettle: Alone On The Wide Shores Of The World

On January 22, Portland Story Theater's Lawrence Howard unveiled the much-anticipated sequel to last-year's sold-out solo show, Shackleton's Antarctic Nightmare. Hailed as "the Homer of Portland," Howard holds audiences "entranced from start to finish" (Wattenberg, The Oregonian, 01/09) with his epic tellings of true historical adventure tales.

This next chapter in the Armchair Adventurer Series is called Mawson's Mettle; Alone On The Wide Shores Of The World and was part of Portland's Fertile Ground Theater Festival. A veteran of one of Shackleton's earlier voyages, Mawson led an Australian expedition to the frozen continent in 1911. Out sledging with two other men, Mawson was thrown into peril when one of the sledges -- along with the six best dogs, most of the food and equipment, and one of his companions -- was lost in a deep crevasse. After his second companion and the rest of the dogs died, Mawson struggled against freezing temperatures, 80 mile-per-hour winds, loneliness, grief, illness and starvation, pulling his one remaining sled for hundreds of miles. This is an epic story of survival and determination and courage to rival the Shackleton saga.

2008-2009: Shackleton's Antarctic Nightmare; The 1914 Voyage of The Endurance

In January, 2008 as part of Portland Story Theater's series of solo shows, Lawrence told the true, epic tale of Ernest Shackleton and the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 to sold-out audiences. Their valiant ship, The Endurance, was trapped in the pack ice and crushed; Shackleton and his 28 men survived on the ice for over a year and endured incredible hardships. Lawrence reprised this show in in January, 2009, again selling out the entire run. This is a story that is very near and dear to Lawrence's heart, as he and his father shared a lifelong interest in the Shackleton saga.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Howard

The Adventures of Huckleberry Howard is a trilogy of inter-connected coming of age tales about bullies, and brothers, and breaking away. This program includes three of Lawrence's most popular stories: In The Belly of The Beast, Night Blues, and Into The West, with a little harmonica music and a few dirty limericks thrown in for good measure. Available on audio CD. Contact Lawrence to buy now!